‘Button’ Batteries Sending More Kids to ER: Study

<p>MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) Cases of children rushed to
the puncture room after incidentally swallowing coin-sized batteries
found in many domicile gadgets have doubled over a past dual decades,
new investigate reveals.
Serious complications including fatalities can arise when
so-called button batteries, found in equipment trimming from remote-control
devices to childrens toys, get lodged in a esophagus.
The boost were saying is a call to action, pronounced investigate lead author
Dr. Gary A. Smith, executive of a Center for Injury Research and Policy
at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Ive treated many of
these children, and when it happens its positively horrifying. So while
weve always reputable a dangers these batteries pose, now its really
time for us to redouble a efforts to advise relatives and work with
manufacturers to take stairs opposite this risk.
The investigate appears online May 14 and in a Jun emanate of
Pediatrics.
The authors looked dur...